Current Research Interests
Computer Vision: Document image analysis, Optical character recognition, image classification and Object detection
Deep Neural networks: Modular/Multi-task deep learning, transfer learning, active learning
Others: Protect AI, AI for Agriculture and healthcare
Teaching
Undergraduate
Fundamentals of Programming ( Bahir Dar Institute of Technology)
Fundamentals of Database systems( Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Deberetabor University)
Advanced Database systems ( Bahir Dar Institute of Technology)
Computer Applications( Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Arba Minch university)
Postgraduate
Machine Learning( University of Gondar, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology)
Deep learning: Method and Applications ( Bahir Dar Institute of Technology)
Computer Vision (University of Paris-Saclay)
Data Mining and business intelligence ( University of Gondar)
Thesis/Dissertation Advising
PhD Thesis (co-supervisor):
Betelhem Dereje: Modeling Optimum Operation of large Scale PV power plant Integrated with Existing Grid System using Artificial Intelligence (since October 2022)
Master Thesis:
Nega Agmas: Amharic Braille document image recognition: A Sequence to Sequence Learning( January 2023)
Kassawmar Mandefro: Multi-Task Deep Learning Approach for Hot Pepper Variety and Maturity Stage Classification ( December 2022)
Lomi Eyachew: Language Identification in Multilingual Document Image: A Deep Learning Approach( October 2022)
Fikadu Berie: Image Captioning with Attention Mechanisms for Images of Ethiopian Cultural Resources( October 2022)
Wondwossen Yimer: Images Do Speak: Knowledge Injected Medical Image Caption Generation ( since September 2021)
Yohannes Abenet: Habesha Fashion Clothes Classification using factored head-CNN ( since September 2021)